The Ramparts, Mont St. Michel, France

c. 1876

Alfred William Hunt

Artist, British, 1830 - 1896

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over graphite with scratching out, on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Stone

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 28.26 × 39.05 cm (11 1/8 × 15 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2022.40.51

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Chris Beetles Ltd., London); David Fuller, London; (his sale, Christie's London, 7 April 2000, no. 42). (Guy Peppiatt, London); Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • The Poetry of Truth: Alfred William Hunt and the Art of Landscape_ 2004 - 2005, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, no. 49

2018

  • British Drawings and Watercolours, Guy Peppiatt, London, 2018, no. 69.

2023

  • Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Inscriptions

lower left verso in graphite: No 2

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